Google Kubernetes Engine Jobs

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Google Kubernetes Engine skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 650 689 917
Rank change year-on-year +39 +228 -227
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 77 436 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.35% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.80% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 66 91 95
10th Percentile £56,250 - £58,500
25th Percentile £61,180 £56,219 £71,175
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.03% -14.71% +20.57%
75th Percentile £91,934 £100,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £137,913 £115,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £59,526 £70,500
% change year-on-year +18.56% -15.57% +10.59%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,975 54,604 60,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.66% 43.21% 46.73%
Number of salaries quoted 18,185 36,102 42,496
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,575 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -5 56 £80,000 -5.88% 27
Work from Home +274 45 £80,000 -20.00% 16
UK excluding London +218 40 £70,576 +18.56% 20
London -13 29 £83,750 -4.29% 11
North of England +145 14 £69,447 +6.84% 11
Scotland +54 14 £120,360 +109.32% 3
North West +105 10 £69,447 -31.24% 11
South West +72 9 £47,500 -38.71% 3
Yorkshire +82 4 £83,577 +40.40%
East of England +127 2 £75,000 -28.57%
West Midlands +130 1 £90,500 -
Midlands +124 1 £90,500 -

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (23.38%) Apache Spark
2 7 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.19%) Apache
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 75 (97.40%) GCP
2 17 (22.08%) GitHub
3 10 (12.99%) Apigee
3 10 (12.99%) AWS
4 9 (11.69%) Cloud Functions
5 8 (10.39%) Cloud Run
5 8 (10.39%) Google Compute Engine
6 6 (7.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (7.79%) Cloud Composer
7 5 (6.49%) Azure
7 5 (6.49%) Azure AKS
7 5 (6.49%) Serverless
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.19%) CloudFront
9 3 (3.90%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.88%) Firewall
2 5 (6.49%) HTTP
3 3 (3.90%) DNS
4 1 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.30%) Network Security
4 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (42.86%) BigQuery
2 16 (20.78%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.49%) Redis
6 4 (5.19%) Bigtable
6 4 (5.19%) Looker
7 3 (3.90%) Big Data
7 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.60%) MySQL
8 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.60%) Tableau
9 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 48 (62.34%) Jenkins
2 14 (18.18%) Git
3 13 (16.88%) Spinnaker
4 12 (15.58%) Maven
5 11 (14.29%) JUnit
6 9 (11.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (7.79%) JIRA
7 6 (7.79%) SonarQube
8 5 (6.49%) Cucumber
8 5 (6.49%) IntelliJ
8 5 (6.49%) Selenium
8 5 (6.49%) WebDriver
9 4 (5.19%) GitLab
10 3 (3.90%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.30%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (38.96%) Finance
2 29 (37.66%) Banking
3 14 (18.18%) Retail
4 13 (16.88%) Social Skills
4 13 (16.88%) Telecoms
5 9 (11.69%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (11.69%) Retail Banking
6 4 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.60%) Billing
7 2 (2.60%) Electronics
8 1 (1.30%) Games
8 1 (1.30%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (51.95%) GCP Engineer
2 26 (33.77%) Senior
2 26 (33.77%) Software Engineer
3 22 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (25.97%) Senior DevOps
5 19 (24.68%) GCP DevOps
5 19 (24.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 18 (23.38%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 16 (20.78%) Lead
8 12 (15.58%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (12.99%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 10 (12.99%) GCP Software Engineer
9 10 (12.99%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (11.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (11.69%) Lead Software Engineer
11 6 (7.79%) Developer
12 5 (6.49%) Data Engineer
12 5 (6.49%) Java Developer
13 4 (5.19%) GCP Data Engineer
13 4 (5.19%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (31.17%) Kafka
2 7 (9.09%) Hibernate
2 7 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 6 (7.79%) REST
3 6 (7.79%) Spring
4 5 (6.49%) Apache Camel
4 5 (6.49%) OpenAPI
4 5 (6.49%) Spring Integration
4 5 (6.49%) Swagger
5 4 (5.19%) Apache Beam
5 4 (5.19%) Velocity
6 2 (2.60%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.30%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.48%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.79%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.19%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.90%) Photography
5 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.60%) Tandem
6 1 (1.30%) Blog
6 1 (1.30%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.30%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.30%) Hackathon
6 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (31.17%) Linux
2 7 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (63.64%) DevOps
2 44 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 41 (53.25%) Agile
4 29 (37.66%) Software Engineering
5 26 (33.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (19.48%) Test Automation
7 14 (18.18%) Configuration Management
7 14 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
8 13 (16.88%) Microservices
9 12 (15.58%) Coaching
9 12 (15.58%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (15.58%) TDD
10 11 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 11 (14.29%) Migration
10 11 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
11 10 (12.99%) Analytics
11 10 (12.99%) Containerisation
11 10 (12.99%) Data Engineering
11 10 (12.99%) Open Source
11 10 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.16%) Java
2 26 (33.77%) Python
3 24 (31.17%) SQL
4 17 (22.08%) Bash
5 5 (6.49%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.49%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.19%) Scala
7 3 (3.90%) Go
7 3 (3.90%) Groovy
8 2 (2.60%) Ruby
8 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.60%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.30%) C#
9 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.30%) Degree
3 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.30%) GDPR
2 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (35.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 63 (81.82%) Kubernetes
2 51 (66.23%) Terraform
3 11 (14.29%) Istio
4 7 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.79%) Ansible
6 3 (3.90%) linkerd
6 3 (3.90%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.60%) Grafana
7 2 (2.60%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.60%) Podman
7 2 (2.60%) Puppet
8 1 (1.30%) Argo
8 1 (1.30%) Kubeflow
8 1 (1.30%) Oozie
Vendors
1 40 (51.95%) Google
2 10 (12.99%) Confluent
3 3 (3.90%) Adobe
3 3 (3.90%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.60%) Synopsys
5 1 (1.30%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.30%) TIBCO